Comments on: Superstitious Stuff!

By: mamu

mamu — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:34:19 +0000

there is a superstition that you must not face on the wall when sleeping? what does it eplains?

By: Donna M

Donna M — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 03:33:52 +0000

Interesting subject! I think most of us carry some superstitions around with us. My birthday is on the 13th so I’ve never felt the number was unlucky! Then a few years ago I got rear ended in my car I’d only had a few months & it was my birthday, Friday the 13th & I think it was the only Friday the 13th that year!!!! I pick up all pennies & I open umbrella’s inside, how else are they going to dry out??!! I don’t usually walk under a ladder but it is more for safety reasons, think about it!! :lightbulb:
Ok, that’s my input!!

By: Lynn Matherly

Lynn Matherly — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:55:50 +0000

I think I do some of the things that are meant to avoid unfortunate happenings, but I don’t go out of my way to not walk under a ladder.

I know some people who if a black cat crosses the street when they are driving down it, they will turn around and find another way!! With the price of gas these days, tsk tsk tsk. ~~~ {{twilight zone theme music playing here…}}

I believe that people are the biggest drivers of the things that do or don’t happen as a result of choices made at some point. But, I do think that premonitions can happen - and the de ja vous thing can really freak me out sometimes.

By: jeannie

jeannie — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:43:51 +0000

I am always out positive energy.

I do pick up the lucky pennies.

After all if you don’t learn to be careful with your pennies

you’ll never have dollars.

By: Kris

Kris — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:08:43 +0000

About the cat and the baby thing. I heard that that came about because the cats were attracted to the milk around the baby’s mouth and were licking it off and people freaked out.

By: Julie Leto

Julie Leto — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:54:15 +0000

I’m going to be the only person who will readily admit she’s superstitious. I think it’s the whole “why f*ck with fate” attitude that I have…yes, you can make your own luck, but you can also make your own BAD luck by screwing around. I can say the one time I broke a mirror, I was about twelve. I remember shoving all the broken pieces (it was a full length mirror that was on the back of my door and I think I slammed it too hard and it fell or something) and I picked up all the broken pieces and put them in a paper bag. Of course, the bag was too heavy for me to lift, so I shoved it in a corner until my father came home. Later that day, I was dancing around my room, lost my balance and fell into the bag and cut my hand very badly. I was terrified and decided to tell no one. I clenched my fist until the bleeding stopped…and then couldn’t open my hand for hours because the muscles cramped. I know I probably needed stitches, but I wouldn’t open my hand so anyone could see! I still have a scar.

The trouble is, I can’t tell you any of my superstitions because if I tell you, something bad will happen. But you will never see me NOT throw spill salt over my shoulder, umbrellas stay outside, ladders are to be avoided at all costs and even black cats freak me out and I owned one for years. I have no idea how I got so superstitious, but like Kim said, it’s just a sign of neuroses!

By: Qua

Qua — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:43:33 +0000

Wow

I can’t really say I’m superstitious since they say you shouldn’t believe in that.

I just chalk anything up to god in regards to good luck and my muddled brain to bad.

By: Tina Martinesi

Tina Martinesi — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:07:17 +0000

Jodie, You’re absolutly right! I guess I’ve seen people do that when I was a kid and it just stuck with me….Although my husband has called me “thick headed” so who knows maybe my head is made of wood

By: Jodie

Jodie — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:34:20 +0000

Tina - I think the “knocking on your head” came from when people felt like they needed to knock on wood, but couldn’t find any. They’d turn around and knock on their head like their head was made of wood - at least that’s what I remember from when I was a kid and saw people do that. They’d look around for wood first and then beat their head. Didn’t make any sense to me then, or now, but I think I do it too!

By: Janelle

Janelle — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:03:54 +0000

Lori — I’ve done stuff like that before, too. Silly, yes, but I do believe in the “jinx” factor, LOL!

Tina — too funny about your grandma! And I usually knock on wood, not my head, LOL!

Leslie — that makes total sense about the cat licking the baby’s lips after he/she drank milk! That’s probably where that one originated from!

Katie — for the most part I believe as you do, that you make your own destiny, that positive energy brings positive stuff and negative energy brings negative stuff.

Did anyone happen to watch Medium last night? I love that show, but this one was more about the “ripple effect” of how one thing a person does can change everything that comes after, and into the future. It had me thinking about how the things we do in our lives, in every second, affects what comes after. Kind of like the “Back to the Future” concept (loved those movies, too!).